Joel Chang Transformers DOTM Concept Art

so much for the driller... taken out almost instantly from the moment prime shows up

The concept art looks absolutely amazing. And the bots were awesome in the movie.
Man, I really hope we get Megatron and Shockwave leader sized.

vegetacron wrote:Yeah, i forgot the anime influence...im tired atm...not thinkin straight, but yeah. I forget that the original Appleseed was out and about a little before this (not the one with CGI in it, the original, original). There was also Gundam and Robotech. Come to think of it, maybe all three of these guys were really more influenced from Gundam.

In the commentary of the first TF movie, I recall Bay saying that the concepts he saw during the production of the robot designs were heavily influenced by Japanese anime and manga.

There was also a very enthusiastic Japanese designer named Kenji who caught his eye. Kenji was furious when his colleagues presented their initial concepts for Optimus, saying they were "an insult to the Japanese." [Seeing some of the early designs of the characters, I can see where he's coming from, to be honest.] Bay found this amusing, and put him in charge of Optimus.

Off-handedly speaking, it's very interesting to see that artists from both Japan and the US professing to have been influenced by each other. I've read various interviews where the Japanese artists said they were inspired to draw more gritty and realistic artwork by US comics, while their American counterparts drew inspiration from the eccentric and out-of-the-box creativity of Japanese mangaka.

Meh,its a global thing. An art movement starts in one area of the world and everyone is quick follow, because innovation usually brings inspiration. This has been happening since the dawn of mankind, but i find the 'ancestory' of a style or concept is always interesting to explore.

Like Josh Nizzi, Warren Manser, and Joel Chang, concept artist Aaron Sims has shared his concept work from Transformers DOTM. Mirrored below are a few of pieces, to view the rest visit his website or Concept Art World.

Lovely!~ <3

I would've really liked for this

to have been Que.


EDIT: While I'm here, and speaking of concept art, does anyone happen to know of any Rampage/Skipjack art from RoTF? I've only ever seen one of him - and it was in a photo of a poster thing at an Australian event, so it's too small to be useful. Anyone?? Any official, or just plain good art of him would be most welcome. PMs to keep this thread on topic?

That last one reminds me of Blackarchania.

Dreadwind... Worksheet... Warpath... Steeljaw... Undermine... man, they really went through the names during DOTM's production. I'm delighted with the names for the final characters, but I have to admit that Dreadwind, Hooligan and Dirtbag sound cooler than Crankcase, Crowbar and Hatchet.

Here's hoping for two more Dread deluxes!

Wowzers. Those are some fancy designs! Think I'll be getting the finger out and seeing the movie this week for sure

ConceptArtWorld has posted a gallery of Wesley Burt's concept art from Transformers Dark of the Moon. We get to see some different takes on the Driller, Optimus Prime's trailer armor upgrades, Que, Laserbeak, and various other conceptual designs. A few have been mirrored below, click here to view the rest.

These look very nice.Undermine would have been a much better name for Igor.Too bad he wasn't called that.

i hate all of those except the optimus prime with trailer stealth force mode and that was good, not awesome just good, possibly a fine.

but the most important thing is i REALLY DISPISE ALL THE PICS except the one i said i was fine with.

The Battle Cruiser kind of looks like HA Backfire's gun mode.

I like it, but not as impressive as Josh Nizzi's, and the others.
BTW, I don't know why I like Igor so much. He's so awesome (maybe because I like Long Haul a lot ).

I like how Que looks with the coat and dinged-up white paint scheme. Wish they had kept that.


I wonder what Igor is supposed to be. He's largely made of Long Haul's head, so is he actually Long Haul (Headmaster?), or did Megatron use parts of dead Cons to make new ones, or something else?

I'm not fond of many of those trailer combos, but I do like this hover-bike thing:

Noideaforaname wrote:
I wonder what Igor is supposed to be. He's largely made of Long Haul's head, so is he actually Long Haul (Headmaster?), or did Megatron use parts of dead Cons to make new ones, or something else?

Well, from reading comics, and TFwiki.net, it seems like Igor is made from Long Haul and some other guys. if you notice, his legs don't really look legs in the film. So, much consideration from that, I think he's made from A* long haul.

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there's a lot of long haul clones out there!

Some of these concepts are better than the movie. The last wing attachment for Prime looks way better than the movie one, and they went from all those good looking Laserbeak concepts to what we saw in the movie? talk about bad decision making. I get it though, they probably wanted it to look as far away from human as possible... doesn't mean it had to be so ugly though, jeese.

Sidearm wrote:These look very nice.Undermine would have been a much better name for Igor.Too bad he wasn't called that.

This. If they make a Legends toy, I'll just call him Undermine. It sounds a lot more like a Transformers name.

Sidearm wrote:These look very nice.Undermine would have been a much better name for Igor.Too bad he wasn't called that.

Eh I don't know, I kinda like Igor better, but that design itself is awesome.
I hope if they make a Leader Megatron, he comes with an Igor/Undermine instead of a Mechtech...

It sounds a lot more like a Transformers name.

True, Undermine is more...TransFormery.

I didn't see a lot of these in the movie. I like seeing the concept art it makes you realize the amount of work that are put into making these blockbuster movies.


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Lets Rock Elmo and Rock Star Mickey would rock and kids' world.

The gunship looks pretty cool.

zenosaurus_x wrote:

Sidearm wrote:These look very nice.Undermine would have been a much better name for Igor.Too bad he wasn't called that.

Eh I don't know, I kinda like Igor better, but that design itself is awesome.
I hope if they make a Leader Megatron, he comes with an Igor/Undermine instead of a Mechtech...

It sounds a lot more like a Transformers name.

True, Undermine is more...TransFormery.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkhwlcVA ... re=related
BEHOLD THE UNDERMINER!!!

zenosaurus_x wrote:

Sidearm wrote:These look very nice.Undermine would have been a much better name for Igor.Too bad he wasn't called that.

Eh I don't know, I kinda like Igor better, but that design itself is awesome.
I hope if they make a Leader Megatron, he comes with an Igor/Undermine instead of a Mechtech...

It sounds a lot more like a Transformers name.

True, Undermine is more...TransFormery.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkhwlcVA ... re=related
BEHOLD THE UNDERMINER!!!
More like the Incredibles.

Gundam Optimus Prime

Massive Black, Inc. has posted more Transformers Dark of the Moon concept art. We get to see several different weapon systems for Optimus Prime including a giant chainsaw, beam rifle/shot gun, and dual shoulder mounted missile pods. We also get to see more alternate designs for the Driller and Laserbeak. We've mirrored a few below, but there's a lot more to see by clicking here.

BFS with a giant chainsawed edge... Massive Overkill.

Hey! THAT'S BACKFIRE ON HIS SHOULDER! they used this for his weapon mode! EPIC WIN!

Wow i love your consept art. i start collage in a months time doing art and design cus one day im going to be an awsome consept artist. one problem though....i carnt paint .
But seriously i really love it

Oh man. Why didn't Optimus Prime use a super chainsaw in DOTM???

Supreme Convoy wrote:Oh man. Why didn't Optimus Prime use a super chainsaw in DOTM???

He did in the game. He had the chainsaw and shoulder rocket launcher combo you see in the first picture. His primary special ability happens to be the shoulder rocket launcher that you can use in campaign and multiplayer. The chainsaw he used when you were fighting him as Megatron in campaign, and you could use it when you were using Optimus during scripted events during the boss fight against Shockwave and Driller.

SUPER CHAINSAW

I want it.

"Minigun/Launcher?"

I read that as "Minigun Launcher" And I was like O_o

That would be awesome...

The driller(?) looks cool. The first one with weapons on shoulder and such are from the game I believe...

JEEZ! How about a Prime with ALL OF THE ABOVE! I'd like a Texas Chainsaw Massacre Optimus Prime.

omega666 wrote:JEEZ! How about a Prime with ALL OF THE ABOVE! I'd like a Texas Chainsaw Massacre Optimus Prime.

The best part is that he could wear a mask made of some Decepticon's face!

Fires_Of_Inferno wrote:

omega666 wrote:JEEZ! How about a Prime with ALL OF THE ABOVE! I'd like a Texas Chainsaw Massacre Optimus Prime.

The best part is that he could wear a mask made of some Decepticon's face!

THIS! THIS!

Fires_Of_Inferno wrote:

omega666 wrote:JEEZ! How about a Prime with ALL OF THE ABOVE! I'd like a Texas Chainsaw Massacre Optimus Prime.

The best part is that he could wear a mask made of some Decepticon's face!

NOW it makes sense.

he he, he looks like a mega war machine now no one can kill him let alone get near him with all that weaponry.

I would have loved for this to have been Lazerbeak:

Fires_Of_Inferno wrote:

omega666 wrote:JEEZ! How about a Prime with ALL OF THE ABOVE! I'd like a Texas Chainsaw Massacre Optimus Prime.

The best part is that he could wear a mask made of some Decepticon's face!

*remembers certain line from ROTF*

GIVE ME YOUR FACE!

prowl123 wrote:

Fires_Of_Inferno wrote:

omega666 wrote:JEEZ! How about a Prime with ALL OF THE ABOVE! I'd like a Texas Chainsaw Massacre Optimus Prime.

The best part is that he could wear a mask made of some Decepticon's face!

*remembers certain line from ROTF*

GIVE ME YOUR FACE!

I laughed at that scene. I didnt know he was so serious....and brutal.

shockwaves-sister wrote:

prowl123 wrote:

Fires_Of_Inferno wrote:

omega666 wrote:JEEZ! How about a Prime with ALL OF THE ABOVE! I'd like a Texas Chainsaw Massacre Optimus Prime.

The best part is that he could wear a mask made of some Decepticon's face!

*remembers certain line from ROTF*

GIVE ME YOUR FACE!

I laughed at that scene. I didnt know he was so serious....and brutal.

Seems like someones been huffing from the Overlord bag.

Awsome! I like the comic strip:D

Concept artist Warren Manser has shared a few more of his pieces from Transformers Dark of the Moon. We get another look at the evil penguin Laserbeak concept, a couple of Sentinel Prime head shots, more images of Opimus Prime's trailer in various attack modes, and the Dreads black SUV alt mode. Images mirrored below.

These are awesome!

Penguin Laserbeak makes me think of "Happy Feet".

Lazerbeak as a penguin? Seriously?

Clayface wrote:So we've got an image of the mighty Megatron wearing a shredded burqa in the desert, while dragging Devastator's balls behind him, and I'm supposed to be impressed/interested? Pass.

Welcome to Seibertron, Debbie Downer.

It's a shame no one spoke up at this point in the design phase and said, "Hey, you know what? These are terrible."

Is it just me, or does Sentinel look like he's doing the Spock eyebrow move in those head shots?